by amiemccracken | Jun 26, 2014 | about me, writing
When I find inspiration, it comes in droves. As proved by my constant blog posting lately (where I hadn’t posted anything in months…). I picked up Emma Itäranta’s book Memory of Water the other day. The first sentence had me lying my Kindle on the...
by amiemccracken | Jun 24, 2014 | about me, Detroit, Germany, travel
I’ve written a few posts on my feelings through this move already. (Here and here.) Things are clearer now–we are definitely moving to Detroit, Michigan–but we still don’t have an exact date. On the 12th I drove down to Stuttgart to supervise...
by amiemccracken | Jun 19, 2014 | about me, Germany, travel
My husband compared my tea drinking habit (maybe four or five cups a day) to his car buying habit. I had to laugh. They do correlate, that’s for sure. Between the two of us we’ve owned ten cars. We love them. They are our hobby. We’re planning on...
by amiemccracken | Jun 17, 2014 | book review, books
Just a few months ago this book, An Unchoreographed Life by Jane Davis, came up on my radar. Someone had posted about it and as soon as I read the summary, I couldn’t wait for it to come out. Then I had the amazing pleasure to actually meet the author in person...
by amiemccracken | Mar 17, 2014 | books
My friend’s Jessica Bell and Adam Byatt are celebrating their silliness (well, and their new book) with a giveaway. They’re writing a dictionary…well, a humorous dictionary. The definitions are a play on words, hence the name Degenerate Dictionary....
